But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction
September 4, 2020
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as posted by the channelA discovery-oriented introduction to error correction codes.
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Heavily related is the chessboard puzzle I did with Matt Parker:
You can read Hamming's own perspective on his discovery of these codes in chapter 12 of "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering".
The viewer Harry Li made an interactive on this topic:
Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Fabó Bence
Spanish: agustin-j
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Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
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